Potential Titles: Weather [Category]
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somethingdarkerAcid Rain:
Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"
Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"
Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
Aeolian:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Atmosphere.
Blizzard.
Bluster.
Boreal/Boreas.
Breeze.
Chinook:
Until February's first chinook - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
Cirrus:
I study atlases and cirrus paths in search of traces - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]
The convex sky bottling cirrus highs - Wyatt Prunty "Last Century"
Climate/Clime.
Cloud.
Cloudless.
Cumulous:
Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"
Domes of coral cumulus - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Our Homeland"
The steep cumuli of moody weather - Wyatt Prunty "Last Century"
Cumulonimbus:
Raindrops woven into cumulonimbus - David Hornibrook "Gone"
Cyclone.
Deluge.
Dew.
Downpour.
Drizzle.
Drought.
Dust Devil:
A sudden dust devil spirals in - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
A dust devil gathering wind - Tyree Daye "The Death of Jimmy as the Dog He Always Was"
East Wind.
Flurry:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
All her heart is a woven part of the flurry and drift - Bliss Carman "Why"
A flurry of notes from Mozart - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
Fog.
Forecast:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
Wind to forecast their arrival - T.J. Anderson III "Ancestors Are Calling"
Can forecast when the time will be too late - Harry Martinson "Aniara 96" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Forty-Below:
Forty-below was a good day - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
Frost.
Gale.
Gust.
Hail.
Hailcloud:
Lashes of white light binding another hailcloud - Adrienne Rich "Peace"
Hailstorm:
Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Haze/Hazy.
Headwind:
A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Heat Wave:
The apples that blossom during a February heat wave - Sarah Freligh "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"
Hoarfrost:
The hoar-frost crumbles in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Anxiety"
Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"
Humid.
Hurricane.
Jet-Stream:
Jet-streams of oxygen spun like pinwheels - Ian Goh "Firework"
Levin:
The chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'" ['Levin' is an archaic term for 'lightning']
Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
The levin's blighting fire comes - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
The javelin of the far-ravening levin - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Lightning.
Low-Pressure System:
A low-pressure system in the abdomen - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"
Meteorology:
Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"
Mist.
Monsoon.
Muggy:
Muggy marshes & thick forests of the mind - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Night-Wind.
North Wind.
Overcast.
Petrichor:
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Rain.
Rainbow.
Rainfall.
Rainwater:
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
Rime:
Ran chill beneath a crust of rime - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Let me forget the rime, the rune, the rose - George Sylvester Viereck "Respite"
Sandstorm:
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
The countryside startles into sandstorm - Wang An-Shih "Autumn Wind" transl. by David Hinton
Sheet-Lightning:
Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"
With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
Shower.
Sirocco:
O'er long tracts the mournful siroc sighs - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Beyond siroccos harvesting the solstice thunders - Hart Crane "Voyages VI"
These the Siroc could not melt - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Sleet.
Smog:
A smog that becomes a wraith - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"
All that stayed stuffed in my lungs like smog - Adrienne Rich "Peeling Onions"
Snow.
Snowfall:
Snowfall from the nebula compounding winter seasons into eons - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"
Snowflake.
Snowstorm.
South Wind.
Squall:
End credits after the squall - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"
If trouble came in shape of squall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Among wild squalls of banded clouds - Georgia Heard "Room of Science"
The stronger for the squall - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"
Storm.
Storm-Cell:
Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
Stormcloud.
Temperate.
Temperature.
Tempest.
Thunder.
Thunderclap.
Thunderhead:
And erected temples like thunderheads - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Or touch the thunderheads that swell our creek - Zachariah Claypole White "The Angel Questions His Faith" [Strange Horizons 7 July 2025]
Thunderstorm.
Tornado.
Torrid:
Where torrid suns the mountains burn - Lennox Amott "Ah, Hast Thou Gone?"
Pour crimson streams of torrid light - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
A swirling pillar made of torrid gases - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Tropic/Tropical.
Typhoon:
That plunged at typhoon strength among the mountains - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A typhoon of incandescent particles - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Hooked to a typhoon's tail - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Weather.
West Wind.
Whirlwind.
Whiteout:
The whiteout of a spring blizzard - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
A spark crystal in a whiteout - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Wind.
Windless.
Windsock:
I let divine will fill me like a windsock - Erin Marie Lynch "Poshmark"
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Wind Storm:
Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"
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Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"
Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"
Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
Aeolian:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Atmosphere.
Blizzard.
Bluster.
Boreal/Boreas.
Breeze.
Chinook:
Until February's first chinook - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
Cirrus:
I study atlases and cirrus paths in search of traces - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]
The convex sky bottling cirrus highs - Wyatt Prunty "Last Century"
Climate/Clime.
Cloud.
Cloudless.
Cumulous:
Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"
Domes of coral cumulus - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Our Homeland"
The steep cumuli of moody weather - Wyatt Prunty "Last Century"
Cumulonimbus:
Raindrops woven into cumulonimbus - David Hornibrook "Gone"
Cyclone.
Deluge.
Dew.
Downpour.
Drizzle.
Drought.
Dust Devil:
A sudden dust devil spirals in - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
A dust devil gathering wind - Tyree Daye "The Death of Jimmy as the Dog He Always Was"
East Wind.
Flurry:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
All her heart is a woven part of the flurry and drift - Bliss Carman "Why"
A flurry of notes from Mozart - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
Fog.
Forecast:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
Wind to forecast their arrival - T.J. Anderson III "Ancestors Are Calling"
Can forecast when the time will be too late - Harry Martinson "Aniara 96" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Forty-Below:
Forty-below was a good day - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
Frost.
Gale.
Gust.
Hail.
Hailcloud:
Lashes of white light binding another hailcloud - Adrienne Rich "Peace"
Hailstorm:
Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Haze/Hazy.
Headwind:
A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Heat Wave:
The apples that blossom during a February heat wave - Sarah Freligh "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"
Hoarfrost:
The hoar-frost crumbles in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Anxiety"
Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"
Humid.
Hurricane.
Jet-Stream:
Jet-streams of oxygen spun like pinwheels - Ian Goh "Firework"
Levin:
The chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'" ['Levin' is an archaic term for 'lightning']
Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
The levin's blighting fire comes - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
The javelin of the far-ravening levin - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Lightning.
Low-Pressure System:
A low-pressure system in the abdomen - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"
Meteorology:
Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"
Mist.
Monsoon.
Muggy:
Muggy marshes & thick forests of the mind - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Night-Wind.
North Wind.
Overcast.
Petrichor:
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Rain.
Rainbow.
Rainfall.
Rainwater:
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
Rime:
Ran chill beneath a crust of rime - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Let me forget the rime, the rune, the rose - George Sylvester Viereck "Respite"
Sandstorm:
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
The countryside startles into sandstorm - Wang An-Shih "Autumn Wind" transl. by David Hinton
Sheet-Lightning:
Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"
With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
Shower.
Sirocco:
O'er long tracts the mournful siroc sighs - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Beyond siroccos harvesting the solstice thunders - Hart Crane "Voyages VI"
These the Siroc could not melt - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Sleet.
Smog:
A smog that becomes a wraith - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"
All that stayed stuffed in my lungs like smog - Adrienne Rich "Peeling Onions"
Snow.
Snowfall:
Snowfall from the nebula compounding winter seasons into eons - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"
Snowflake.
Snowstorm.
South Wind.
Squall:
End credits after the squall - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"
If trouble came in shape of squall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Among wild squalls of banded clouds - Georgia Heard "Room of Science"
The stronger for the squall - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"
Storm.
Storm-Cell:
Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
Stormcloud.
Temperate.
Temperature.
Tempest.
Thunder.
Thunderclap.
Thunderhead:
And erected temples like thunderheads - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Or touch the thunderheads that swell our creek - Zachariah Claypole White "The Angel Questions His Faith" [Strange Horizons 7 July 2025]
Thunderstorm.
Tornado.
Torrid:
Where torrid suns the mountains burn - Lennox Amott "Ah, Hast Thou Gone?"
Pour crimson streams of torrid light - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
A swirling pillar made of torrid gases - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Tropic/Tropical.
Typhoon:
That plunged at typhoon strength among the mountains - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A typhoon of incandescent particles - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Hooked to a typhoon's tail - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Weather.
West Wind.
Whirlwind.
Whiteout:
The whiteout of a spring blizzard - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
A spark crystal in a whiteout - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Wind.
Windless.
Windsock:
I let divine will fill me like a windsock - Erin Marie Lynch "Poshmark"
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Wind Storm:
Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
